Today I had a wonderful day volunteering at our local food bank. What a gratifying feeling to be helping the less fortunate, and to have the opportunity to work with such energetic people! I work there often. I would recommend doing that for anyone who wants to feel terrific afterward. Volunteer!
When I got home and was reading my emails, I came across this quote on About.com and I found that it actually describes a lot of things besides art. It was taken from the French artists Henri Matisse. Now I have to go look his work up and refresh my memory on his creations. I hope you are all as inspired by this, and not just the artists out there (like myself) who often suffer from a lack of divine vision:
"It would be a mistake to ascribe creative power to an inborn talent; a creative operation requires an effort. Creativity takes courage." -- Henri Matisse.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Monday, July 25, 2005
Thank you, thank you!
To all of you who were wonderful enough to leave me feedback, I sincerely thank you!
I hope that you check in often, and see where my wanderings take me.
Goodnight.
Ann
I hope that you check in often, and see where my wanderings take me.
Goodnight.
Ann
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Something new has been added...
Good evening all,
I have added a feature to my site called Blog Explosion to my blog. I am extremely new to this whole thing, and I would greatly appreciate comments, advice, or honest critique from anyone interested. Thanks everyone for your help!
I have added a feature to my site called Blog Explosion to my blog. I am extremely new to this whole thing, and I would greatly appreciate comments, advice, or honest critique from anyone interested. Thanks everyone for your help!
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Full moon
Tonight there is a full moon. How do I know this? Because I went out to gaze at the stars tonight, and it was gazing back. Serene face of the moon, tilting slightly, and shining in a way that nothing else can compare to, or imitate.
I wonder how many people take the time to go out and look at the stars or the moon any more. It is a hurried world we live in, full of technology and electricity, and danger in the furtive shadows outside. Outside should be a place where there is a sense of quiet wonder, with the entire universe stretched out before us. Time was, not too long ago, when poets and philosophers and lovers took to the night, and dreamt of the worlds beyond our own, and wished upon those stars...
They wrote verses about that moon.
When I was a child, I ran through the fields and played beneath the full moon ~~ played hide and seek behind hay bales and laughed. I gazed at billions of stars. I could see them then. So many stars that their light filled my heart and soul. I miss that.
I live in another small town today, but even here the technology has crept in. I couldn't see many stars because there is a streetlamp on the road beneath my apartment, and it obliterates all but the brightest specks in the heaven. The streetlamp made the night sky a vast sea of blue/green... Empty and void save for that shining moon. She cannot be forsaken.
I have read that once the space station is finished, it will be the brightest thing in the sky next to the moon. I wonder what its light will feel like in my soul, an artificial "star." Can technology ever be as comforting as the real lights in the sky...
I wonder how many people take the time to go out and look at the stars or the moon any more. It is a hurried world we live in, full of technology and electricity, and danger in the furtive shadows outside. Outside should be a place where there is a sense of quiet wonder, with the entire universe stretched out before us. Time was, not too long ago, when poets and philosophers and lovers took to the night, and dreamt of the worlds beyond our own, and wished upon those stars...
They wrote verses about that moon.
When I was a child, I ran through the fields and played beneath the full moon ~~ played hide and seek behind hay bales and laughed. I gazed at billions of stars. I could see them then. So many stars that their light filled my heart and soul. I miss that.
I live in another small town today, but even here the technology has crept in. I couldn't see many stars because there is a streetlamp on the road beneath my apartment, and it obliterates all but the brightest specks in the heaven. The streetlamp made the night sky a vast sea of blue/green... Empty and void save for that shining moon. She cannot be forsaken.
I have read that once the space station is finished, it will be the brightest thing in the sky next to the moon. I wonder what its light will feel like in my soul, an artificial "star." Can technology ever be as comforting as the real lights in the sky...
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Tuesday, July 12
I have decided that posting my own blathering is useless, and I have decided to use this blog to my advantage. I will be working on a theme for this, and as soon as I have done my homework, I will let you know. Wish me luck! Any suggestions for blog themes would be greatly appreciated!
Good evening world,
I couldn't sleep and this blog is depressing me because noone bothers to look at it. I wonder what I need to be talking about to get someone to respond? Any suggestions? There are subjects out there that everyone wants to read about, but what is my niche... The subject that isn't done to death somewhere else. Hmmmmmmm
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Sunday, July 10th
This is my prayer to all those who have suffered from the tragedies during the recent London bombings and hurricane Dennis in the United States and Cuba. I sincerely hope that your worlds are able to return to normal soon.
I cannot change what has happened, but I hope that you find comfort in the knowledge that there are people around the world who care, and are sending you positive energy.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Tuesday, July 5th In the Aftermath of the festivities
I hope that everyone in the US had a wonderful 4th of July, but I have an observation to make. I live in a small rural town, and supposedly we are proud of our "hometown" atmosphere. Every year we have parades, and we let off fireworks on the jetty outside the edge of the harbor, and people come from other states and even countries to see the display. I am not advocating that people should ever be denied this celebration, quite the contrary! I LOVE 4th of July and the whole spirit of unity and family, but I cannot believe what a negative image we present!!!
I was walking back to my house after the parade yesterday, and the streets were littered with the trash from the people who were watching the parade. Cups, broken toys and balloons, and the wrappers from the candy that gets thrown to spectators from the floats. It is always so awful afterwards! I cannot believe that people just assume that "someone else will take care of it." Is this any way to treat our country?!
Worse yet is the state of the beaches after the fireworks. People are allowed to let off their purchased fireworks on the beach while they are waiting for the display that is put on by the city. Again, the people just leave their trash all over the ground, including the debris left from their own fireworks and celebrating. They simply assume that the tide will come and "clean" up after them. There are all kinds of toxic sediments left in those leftover canisters and wrappers that are so carelessly strewn all over! And our citizens wonder why our fishing has been declining over the years! Is it really so hard to figure out that we are poisoning our own waters?!!!
Ok, you figured it out, I am an environmentalist. But propriety be damned, this HAS TO STOP!!! I have written to my local government, but I seem to be viewed as some kind of weirdo, you know, "One of those TREE HUGGERS..." So Be It, I am!!!!! I am horrified at the amount of ridiculous things that we are willing to overlook for the sake of finances. Our poor little town gets revenue from the whole celebration. But what will we do when the pristine beauty that we take for granted isn't there any more? This is one of the few places left in the US where it is relatively unspoiled, and and an area of even greater rarity, where the Redwoods abound.
I am sure that there are similar problems all over the country, and I have to ask you all, is this any way to respect the country that we love?
I was walking back to my house after the parade yesterday, and the streets were littered with the trash from the people who were watching the parade. Cups, broken toys and balloons, and the wrappers from the candy that gets thrown to spectators from the floats. It is always so awful afterwards! I cannot believe that people just assume that "someone else will take care of it." Is this any way to treat our country?!
Worse yet is the state of the beaches after the fireworks. People are allowed to let off their purchased fireworks on the beach while they are waiting for the display that is put on by the city. Again, the people just leave their trash all over the ground, including the debris left from their own fireworks and celebrating. They simply assume that the tide will come and "clean" up after them. There are all kinds of toxic sediments left in those leftover canisters and wrappers that are so carelessly strewn all over! And our citizens wonder why our fishing has been declining over the years! Is it really so hard to figure out that we are poisoning our own waters?!!!
Ok, you figured it out, I am an environmentalist. But propriety be damned, this HAS TO STOP!!! I have written to my local government, but I seem to be viewed as some kind of weirdo, you know, "One of those TREE HUGGERS..." So Be It, I am!!!!! I am horrified at the amount of ridiculous things that we are willing to overlook for the sake of finances. Our poor little town gets revenue from the whole celebration. But what will we do when the pristine beauty that we take for granted isn't there any more? This is one of the few places left in the US where it is relatively unspoiled, and and an area of even greater rarity, where the Redwoods abound.
I am sure that there are similar problems all over the country, and I have to ask you all, is this any way to respect the country that we love?
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